EIGHT HURT IN MALL STAB­BING, SUS­PECT KILLED

WASHINGTON: A man mak­ing “some ref­er­ences to Al­lah” stabbed and in­jured eight peo­ple in a shop­ping mall in the state of Min­nesota yes­ter­day, be­fore be­ing shot dead by an off-duty of­fi­cer, po­lice said. The sus­pect “asked at least one per­son if they were Mus­lim be­fore he as­saulted them,” said Blair An­der­son, the po­lice chief in the city of St Cloud where the at­tack took place. But he em­pha­sised that the as­sailant’s mo­ti­va­tion re­mained un­clear. – AFP